Yarn-spinning apparatus.



PATENTED MAY 3, 1904.

J. HAYDEN, JR. YARN SPINNING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 21, 1904.

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NITED STATES Patented May 3, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

YARN-SPINNING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,752, dated May 3, 1904.

Application filed Iannary 21, 1904. Serial No. 189,951. No model.)

To (l 1072 0711 it may concern.-

Be it known that l, JOEL TIAYDEN, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing in Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Yarn-Spinning Apparatus, of which the :following is a specification.

This invention relates to spinning apparatus comprising a spinning-ring and its supporting-plate or holder; and it has for its principal objects, first, to prevent absolute freedom of movement of the ring laterally or horizontally and do away with any such construction as would provide a loose connection between the ring and its support or holder, whereby the ring is free to move in any direction, and, second, to center the ring as soon as it rises, either a whole or in part, and to absolutely guide its movement,so that it will be lifted in a vertical line, practically without edgewise or horizontal movement and substantially without rotative movement. In other words, the principal objects of my invention are to do away with free movement of the ring, but to center it and allow a purely vertical movement and to substitute for loose connections between the ring and its holder a guide, whereby it is restricted to such centering and vertical movement.

The nature of the invention is fully described below and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a spinning-ring and its support embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the under side. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3, showing the ring centered and raised in a vertical line. Fig. 4 is an enlarged section taken on line 4:, Fig. 1, showing the ring centered and raised. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the ring seated on its support. Fig. 6 is an enlarged section taken on line 6, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondi ng parts.

(1 represents a spinning-ring constructed in the ordinary manner and provided with the upper and lower flanges 7) and 0.

(Z is the supporting-plate or holder, provided with the opening 0, said circular opening being relatively larger in diameter than is usually the case in order to render as small as possible the annular bearing for the ring, so as to practically prevent the lodgement and accummulation of dust or foreign substance between the ring and its seat. The plate or base is provided with a number, preferably three or four, of upwardly-extending and inwardly-inclined guides g, formed up from and integral with the plate at its inner circular edge, the inner ends lb of said guides being preferably bent into an approximately horizontal lip which is adapted to overlap the upper edge of the lower flange 0. The effect of the yarn on the ring is of course to move and lift it, either as a whole or in part-that is to say, one or all sides of the ring may be lifted. This lifting tendency may in practice be combined with a tendency to horizontal movement. In this invention, however, the instant that the ring is moved, whether the pull is in a directly-vertical line or at an angle, the inclined guides control this movement, so that it is substantially vertical, and immediately center the ring under the lips or upper portions of the guides, as illustrated in Fig. 4, so that it loses all freedom of movement and cannot vibrate horizontally or laterally. As the movement, therefore, is controlled, there is no opportunity for loose shaking or motions which are not substantially vertical. In order to prevent rotation except to an infinitesimal degree, one or more of the guides 57 are cut away centrally, as illustrated at Z', thus providing a space for a locking clip or clamp m, whose central portion underlaps the flange c and whose ends a are bent around and overlap its opposite edges. By this means unnecessary vibration and lost motion in different directions are obviated, thus preventing retardation of the traveler around the ring and increase of the friction of said traveler. It is evident that less power will be required to run the frame when the movement of the rings is thus controlled.

It is found that a ring thus constructed is adapted to spin not only warp-yarn but filling-yarn now operated on by mules.

flange thereof, one of said guides being formed with theslot or recess k; and a locking clip or clamp on under the lower edge or flange of the ring, and with one end extending through said slot and overlapping the outer edge of said lower flange, and the other end overlapping the inner edge of said flange, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOEL HAYDEN, J R.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, A. K H001). 

